F American ISP's

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Originally Posted by cpayne5

There are many factors at play here, but essentially, newer infrastructure means faster internet. Verizon is making this type of service a reality to some, but until it has competitors who are willing to compete with at those speeds, they won't be making available those types of speeds either.

Another thing to consider is that those speeds are fairly localized. Communicate with a non-local server, and those speeds diminish. The bottlenecks still exist no matter how fast your ISP is.

And there lies the problem. The current system allows for local monopolies and oligopolies. There is little to no competition. What incentive do these companies have to invest in infrastructure when they can hoard supply and limit use. I understand business is buy for a dollar sell for two but a lot of these companies compared to the rest of the world are buying for a dollar and selling for ten.

Like again consider that if you go over 250 GB on Comcast for multiple months you get banned for a year. Not fined, not a surcharge but banned. Sometimes with little or no warning. And it's not people who file share that suffer but rather people who use legitimate services like Netflix and Hulu as well as cloud computing for both work and personal use.

Why Broadband Service in the U.S. Is So Awful: Scientific American

The same is not true in Japan, Britain and the rest of the rich world. In such countries, the company that owns the physical infrastructure must sell access to independent providers on a wholesale market. Want high-speed Internet? You can choose from multiple companies, each of which has to compete on price and service. The only exceptions to this policy in the whole of the 32-nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development are the U.S., Mexico and the Slovak Republic, although the Slovaks have recently begun to open up their lines.

The last real advantage we have over the rest of the world is technology and we are seemingly doing everything we can to **** that advantage up.

I've heard though that Google, Amazon, and Apple have all looked into becoming ISP's and seeing as how they're internet first companies they'll probably do a world of good should they ever choose to go that route.

Internet Service Providers: Who will become an ISP first: Google, Amazon, or Apple? - Quora

There seems to be a problem on the internet. Three massive and massively profitable tech companies, Google, Amazon, and Apple, and releasing services that depend on a userbase with rapid, reliable, and data-heavy access to the cloud. At the same time, all major ISPs and mobile providers, such as Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, are progressively throttling, limiting, and capping data, or creating pricing policies which incentivize user against data-heavy use.